Chapter Two - An Almost Broken Window
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Natsu locked eyes with Lucy's, then they fell down to the small, neatly wrapped boxes that she held in her arms. The one that caught his attention was on the top, covered in flame designs.
Lucy looked upset but forced out a laughed.
"I guess I should've known that you hate this holiday." She sniffled, shifting the boxes to one arm letting her somewhat free hand wipe something from her face, which Mira suspected was a tear. "Silly me." Lucy laughed again giving them a weak smile, putting up a facade.
No one said anything other than "thank you" as Lucy handed them their chocolates.
"I think I am just going to go home," She held Natsu's box, turning it in her hand. "I'll take this with me." Lucy was close to crying, the sooner she got out of there the better.
Natsu watched as she turned around and half jogged out of the guild, her red gown flowing behind her. Natsu's jaw dropped as the scent of Lucy's salty tears wafted into his nose.
"Good going, idiot." Gray scoffed at him, this time Natsu let him insult him. This time there was no denying how much of an idiot he was. He had made Lucy cry.
He sat there dumbfounded for what seemed like an eternity before turning to look at Mira and Erza who were burning holes into him with their glares.
"What.. Should I do?" He ask desperately, his instinct told him to run after her and apologize profusely. He wanted to shake her and tell her that he didn't mean any of it. He wanted to tell her that he would happily take her to the dance, that he loved that she made him chocolate.
Why was he so flustered and why did he feel so terrible?
"You know what to do, you fool." Erza looked at him knowingly, and gestured to the door.
Natsu shot up like a rocket and blasted out the the guild hall, bee-lining straight for Lucy's apartment.
Lucy held it in a much as she could, but the dam couldn't hold the water works any longer.
Tears flooded down her face as she tried to muffle them with her pillow. She felt so stupid for crying but she couldn't stop, the tears kept coming and coming with no end in sight.
Her feelings were incredibly hurt, so much so that she found it hard to believe that bird-brained Natsu Dragneel was the cause of her heartache.
She had worked so hard on making and wrapping his chocolates, not only that but why did he seemed repulsed by the idea of taking her to the dance? What was wrong with her? Was she not cute enough? Funny enough?
The image of Natsu swiftly turning around, his face contorted and full of malice flickered into her mind like a rerun of a bad movie.
"And it was all directed towards me." Lucy sobbed in her pillow.
Several minutes had passed when she heard a couplet of loud knocks on her window which startled her. The curtains were closed and the sun was starting to set so she could not see who was on her balcony.
"Luce," Her stomach churned, the last person she wanted to talk to. "Lucy, let me in please."
Lucy could see the outline of Natsu's hand pressed up against the glass.
"No, Natsu," she croaked "go away." Lucy was so embarrassed that she couldn't even think straight, she was an absolute and total mess, no way in hell she would let anyone see her like that.
"Lucy, please. I really need to talk to you."
"Whatever you have to say to me you can say it on the other side of this wall."
Natsu put his head up against the glass, and let out a puff of air. The longer he waited outside the more terrible he felt.
"Lucy, I'll give you to the count of 10 to opened this window," He's fingers drummed on the glass "or I will open it myself."
"You wouldn't dare. I don't have the money to replace it!" Lucy gasped.
"10...9…"
"Natsu!" Lucy yelled panicking, quickly wiping her eyes and patting down her hair.
"6...5…"
"Okay! Okay." She snapped at him through the glass. Before she undid the latch she gave herself a round of small slaps on her cheeks, hoping it would make her look like she hadn't been crying.
Ahhh, how will Natsu fix things?
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